Comments on: Will I still need my Nader fix?

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:55:22 +0000

TRUTH FLASH – Nader has been accepting money from the republican party for his campaign. Hm, sometimes when one goes too far to the left, one meets the right. It is Capitalistic machine that is tearing humans apart. “When will ever learn?”

By: chutney

chutney — Fri, 09 May 2003 04:13:33 +0000

Sure, but his opponent has foot-in-mouth disease too, so it should even out.

By: fakane

fakane — Thu, 08 May 2003 16:59:31 +0000

Seems like Dean is reaching a lot of ’00 Greens (I am one myself). Probably because he has that same “fire” that Nader had– and we all want a crusader to make the left viable again.

Of course, no way is Dean a Nader clone. Despite being from Vermont (certainly the most liberal state east of the Mississippi) he’s probably the most conservative governor they’ve had in recent years. Also he’s pro-gun, pro-death-penalty. So he’s no Socialist Democrat.
But he’s probably our best shot at winning back the WH in ’04.

One thing that worries me is that Dean seems to have
foot-in-mouth disease. He’s made a couple of gaffes that have allowed (or will be used later) for easy attacks from the right and from Kerry.

By: Curtiss Leung

Curtiss Leung — Thu, 01 May 2003 17:07:12 +0000

There’s supposed to be a result, called “Duverger’s Law,” stating that simple majority voting inevitably leads to two party systems. I can’t find any mathematical argumentation for it on the web, though, so it may just be a sociological conjecture.

OTOH, it seems pretty obvious that simple majority voting will not give anything like an adequate representation of the populace. It’ll over-represent the major groups, and eveyone and everything else will drop out.

Regarding voting for Nader in ’00: I was so digusted that I wrote in my friends in the general election. New York went for Gore anyway.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 01 May 2003 01:51:35 +0000

Come back to the party that gets things done! Howard Dean is just about the best thing to hit Democratic politics since I don’t know when.
I was in Texas this past weekend with their Young Democrats, and the Dallas club had the best t-shirt. “Sometimes the ass kicks back.”

Rachel Morse
Yellow Dog Democrat

By: Mathew Gross

Mathew Gross — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:59:17 +0000

We hope you do come back to the Dems because of Howard Dean.

Annatopia has a long post on this subject:

http://archives.annatopia.com/000326.html

By: Bummo

Bummo — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

smeagol is mone all mine!